Example sentences of "[adj] moment when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT 'S a heartbreaking moment when a great sportsman finally decides to quit the arena he has graced for so long . |
| 2 | South Africa was marred by the fatal accident to Tom Pryce when a marshal ran across the track : a memorable moment when a dead man 's car kept running down the straight . |
| 3 | But Maria 's presence actually begs a question since it 's the sole moment when a startling presence swoops out of the mix . |
| 4 | Her cleverness , as always , is in the timing , her feeling for identifying the exact moment when a certain slice of the past will have most resonance in the present . |
| 5 | There were many moments when an unexpected surge in the crowd could have resulted in catastrophe . |
| 6 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |
| 7 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |